[Python-ideas] Python's Source of Randomness and the random.py module Redux

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Tue Sep 15 02:18:50 CEST 2015


On September 14, 2015 at 8:14:33 PM, Donald Stufft (donald at stufft.io) wrote:
> > Security "fails open" in that if someone does something insecure, 
> it's not
> going to raise an exception or give different results or something 
> like that.

This should read:

Security "fails open" in that if someone uses an API that allows something
insecure to happen (like not validating HTTPS) it's not going to raise an
exception or give different results or something like that.

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